You just worked with one of your favorite clients, and you’re happy for a moment. But in the next breath you can feel how tired you are. Your email is waiting, your website is waiting, and aren’t you supposed to be blogging, and tweeting, and going to networking events…

And though you love your clients, there aren’t enough of them.

Okay, last week was pretty good. And the month before was okay. But it’s always on the edge. Never quite enough of a dependable flow to really relax. It’s driving you crazy. You feel smart, competent and aligned in many areas of your life. Why does business-building make you feel so strange?

Sound familiar? You’re in Stage Two.

You and Your Heart Need to Get to Stage Three

Micro businesses go through three stages of development, from Stage 1: Creation, through Stage 2: Concentration, to Stage 3: Momentum.

Stage Two: Concentration, is exhausting. There’s an unsustainable amount of work and yet there’s not enough money to really smooth things out.

Stage Three: Momentum is where it’s at. It’s the Holy Grail of the solo business. In Momentum you have:

• A dependable flow of clients;
• More than enough money coming in;
• Confidence in what you do;
• Clarity in your message and how you talk about it;
• Creativity and heart throughout your business–it feels like home;
• Systems and structures that support it all in a sustainable manner.

Why It’s Hard to Get There

You can move from Stage One to Stage Two on inspiration, excitement, and sheer push. But the move from Stage Two to Stage Three is a little more complicated.

There’s so much happening, what do you work on first? And how do you know when it’s “enough” and you can move on to the next thing?

Oh, and the biggest thing? Sometimes you feel like you have to override your sense of what’s right to get there. And there’s no way you’re going to do that.

It can perplex the hardest-working, best-educated, and most sincere people.

It’s Not A Quick-Fix Kinda Thing

Stage Two is a plateau. And it rarely responds to thirty-day-miracle-cure kinds of gimmicks, because you have to put a number of different pieces in place, work the kinks out, and then make sure they are aligned with who you really are. It just takes time.

And yet, it doesn’t have to take forever… You can move steadily through the Stage Two plateau and get into Momentum where the pain and struggle fade away, and you get to just enjoy your business, your clients, and your life.

“Opening the Moneyflow 2012″ Gets You To Stage Three: Momentum

Ten years of history. Thousands of clients. Experienced facilitators. A proven heart-based approach. We can get you to the fulfillment of Momentum.

And here’s how. Five pieces need to come together to get you there.

1. Heart-Centered Business Training.

Yes, you have deep wisdom and answers inside you. It’s not always enough. Sometimes you just need to learn how to do something. And, it’s easier to be creative and access your own wisdom when you understand how something works.

2. Expert Feedback Every Step Along the Way.

To implement and develop your business requires doing something, seeing what happens, then tweaking it so that it’s both more effective and feels more like who you really are. Expert coaching and feedback means this process won’t take years and years of trial-and-error.

3. Community.

When like-hearted people come together to create something of beauty, it’s not just a collection of individuals. There is a collective gravitas that is formed that you, your heart, your business can feel. It’s a vehicle.

4. Heart and Spirit.

The one thing that surprised me most years ago when I first started to working in small business is how tender the process is. We need a lot of love, compassion and gentleness mixed in with the accountability, and a heart-community can help you move forward without beating yourself up. Not to mention breaking up the loneliness of doing it on your own.

5. Compassionate Accountability

Learning, feedback, healing and support don’t mean anything to your business if you aren’t following through with what needs to be done. At the same time, drill-sergeant accountability is painful to the heart and doesn’t take into account the organic way life flows. The accountability must be compassionate.

With these five pieces, I think you can get how you’ll feel carried into the momentum and ease of Stage Three in your business.

Opening the Moneyflow provides all five of them.

In, and before, the Opening the Moneyflow group facilitated by Jason I got guidance from him about my business that was gold. He is so grounded that no matter what I brought to the calls, I knew that he would be able to handle it and provide insightful reflections. In many cases where he felt strongly about what I was doing (or not doing), he made direct requests from his compassionate, grounded, powerful, and clear heart.

He helped me honestly assess my strengths and weaknesses and face that I was having trouble finding enough teenagers and parents to work with. We crafted a plan to go to where teens already were and work to create partnerships, so I reached out to schools and summer camps. And poof. I had access and got connected to my target market. I doubled my annual income in year 1 and am headed in that direction again this year.

It is easy to feel respected and held by Jason’s intention to help, even when he is giving direct or uncomfortable feedback. He is a beautiful spirit and a darn helpful man.

Morgan Rich, Play Huge Coaching, LLC

January to December, 2012

Taking You From On-the-Edge into Momentum

Here’s what we want you, and every participant, to have by the end of the year:

• Expand your fan base significantly by consistently and effectively going beyond your current circles.
• Build and deepen trust with those who would be your best clients.
• Effective, heart-centered way to consistently have those best people become paying clients.
• Powerful, clear offers that your best people naturally want to buy without a lot of selling.
• Financial systems to project cash flow and cut the unhealthy surprise out of your money reality.
• Heal your internal blocks, fears, and beliefs that have been keeping you from taking action.
• A powerful website presence that brings clients in.
• How to track projects and tasks in a way that works for you, to reduce overwhelm.
• Just enough systems. Not so few that you are overwhelmed, not so many that you are needlessly spending money and complicating your business.
• A regular spiritual practice that cuts through overwhelm, nourishes the heart, and consistently connects you to guidance and peace.

And no doubt more than that, but that will be enough to get you into Momentum.

About Jason and Yollana

While you might be familiar with me, Mark, you may be less familiar with these star team members, Yollana Shore and Jason Stein, both of whom have a lot of experience working with clients, on their own, and within Heart of Business.

I have gotten coaching and healing from both of them. I trust Heart of Business in their hands. I trust them to care for your business, too.

The Scoop on Yollana Shore

Hi, I’m Yollana.

I believe that business can be a powerful vehicle for transformation in the world. And that’s why I’m passionate about helping heart-centred businesses off the ground, to grow and to succeed.

But when I say ‘success’, let me be clear about that – For over ten years I’ve been seeking, studying and applying business and marketing strategies that are aligned with my heart, soul and the deeper values in life. For me, those values include spiritual awakening, social justice, environmental sustainability and world peace.

If you are floundering with some aspect of your business and really need somebody who is going to be there with you, not let you collapse into it, but also not hurry you into some kind of outcome that is not authentic, I would definitely recommend Yollana to you.

Yollana, meets the whole person that she is working with. She has practical knowledge and skills, without which the work wouldn’t be as powerful. But at the center of it is a rich inquiry process where she pays deep attention to what’s happening at a foundational level. She has a gift for inviting what needs to emerge, to emerge, and for helping you discover ways to move forward into the best next steps.

Tasha Harmon, client

Read more about Yollana, including a short video of Mark describing Yollana’s zing.

The Scoop on Jason Stein

As a young child I experienced the empowerment of entrepreneurship at age 8. My step dad supported me along with my brother and two sisters to launch a dry cleaning company. We weren’t old enough to operate all the heavy machinery, so we outsourced the work to a neighborhood company and made a healthy profit. I was hooked. That original experience taught me about leadership, teamwork, and the art of small business.

And yes, I was the kid who would buy lollipops in bulk and then sell them at a premium in school.

I highly recommend Mark Silver and Heart of Business and particularly Jason Stein as a Coach. As a Psychotherapist and Mentor I was struggling with how to keep my heart in alignment while also also earning a decent living. Jason showed me how I could integrate the two with integrity. Jason has a natural ability to unite mindful business skills with a heartfelt way of being. I really enjoy his wonderful blend of focus, humour, passion and compassion. Under his skillful caring guidance my client base has been continually increasing and I am doing more of the work I love. Thanks Jason.

Dave Wali Waugh RPC, Mentor and Psychotherapist, Meaningful Life Design Center Ltd.

Read more about Jason, including watching Mark describe Jason’s secret gift.

The Topics You’ll Be Learning

There is quite a bit to  learn in making a business run well. But, learning it all from a heart-based perspective helps them feel natural, intuitive, like an extension of what you would do normally. Could you imagine a Divinely-inspired, healthy relationship with each of these topics:

• Your Jewel and Business Mission
• Financial Maturity (spreadsheets and other tracking)
• Marketing Message That Is Clear, Grounded and Gets Attention
• Sacred Selling
• A Sequence and Flow of offers that create repeat customers
• Making Money Now… and later (cash flow projections six to twelve months out)
• Using Free to Get Paid
• Ezines, Blogs and Creating Compelling Content Consistently
• A Healthy Relationship with Money in General
• Social Media and Gathering Crowds
• Heart-Centered Strategic Planning

These eleven topics, plus more that we can pull out if we see a need, will get you into the Momentum of Stage Three:

Your Jewel and Business Mission: a conscious embodiment of your deepest spiritual gift will keep you and your business aligned, nourished, and attractive. When that gift is combined with a clear and powerful mission, decisions are easier, opportunities seem to find you, and the path forward becomes clear.

Financial Maturity: Oh My God, spreadsheets! Money isn’t everything, but it’s one of the vital signs of a healthy business. Tracking your money with mature, straightforward, non-overwhelming accounting will help you get grounded in a powerful way.

Marketing Message: Can you say what you do without glazing eyes? Can your clients spread the word easily? Does your marketing message feel good in your heart and is it effective at bringing people to you? Time to get a powerful, heart-centered marketing message based on a template for spiritual healing.

Sacred Selling: Attracting a crowd with powerful marketing is one thing. Having your best clients say “Yes, can I pay you now?” is something else. Having an effective heart-centered sales process that feels natural and fun is critical to making a profit.

Sequence and Flow: The pages on your website and the offers in your business have something in common: they lead people towards a destination. When your offers are crafted and put together effectively, you end up with a large crowd of people following you, and your paying clients come back over and over again.

Making Money Now… and Later: You need to keep cash coming in now, but you also want to be thinking creatively and strategically about how to keep the cash flow consistent six to twelve months from now. It doesn’t need to be a battle. Cash flow projections can be integrated with immediate money needs.

Using Free to Get Paid: Whether it’s a free giveaway on your website, or a free session to a potential client, free is often an important step to getting paid. You’ll learn how to use free in a way that won’t leave you giving too much away with nothing to show for it, and will feel good and completely in integrity with your heart.

Money and Overwhelm: Fear around survival and money, or judgments about money, can stop you from being in a healthy, Divinely-inspired relationship with it. You don’t need to be a millionaire (although that can be a nice thing), but you do need to be comfortable and relaxed with money.

Overwhelm, money-related or not, is always available. Having a solid solution to overwhelm that works whenever and however you need it is critical.

Ezines, Blogs and Creating Compelling Content: People don’t like to be sold or yelled out. They do like to learn and they do like to be entertained. Creating compelling content on your topic is a key piece of sustainable marketing. You’ll learn the key ingredients of heart-centered content creation, that moves you past writer’s block, and works for any intention or situation.

Social Media and Gathering Crowds: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and what else? Social media doesn’t have to be overwhelming, suck all your time away, or distract you from business. It can be purposeful, fun, engaging, and an incredibly powerful amplifier of what you’re doing. Learn heart-centered networking through social media that will move your business forward in a sustainable way.

Heart-Centered Strategic Planning for 2013: When setting goals, if you can’t feel the reality of them, you can’t walk into them. Instead of trying to dictate reality and force it to bend to your will, you can use your heart to discern what’s true and possible, and to see the path forward. So much easier and more practical.

It’s a lot to cover, but we’ve got a year! And chances are, if you are who we think you are, you need to fill in some gaps and increase your effectiveness with these topics. You probably only need to learn a few of them from scratch, and you may even have a couple of them mastered already.

When I first approached Heart of Business, I was in a place of needing more clients and establishing a more regular income from my business. I was using a scatter gun approach to finding new business and it was exhausting, especially being a solopreneur. Through working with Jason, I devised a very natural and effective “system” to attract the right clients. I now have a very clear, focussed direction and a business that in effect, runs itself!

I would recommend working with Jason, he has great clarity, seeing way beyond the current “problem”. He brings foresight, support and holistic coaching that is tailored specifically to you as an individual, and the impact you wish to have in the world.

Phil Askew CPCC, The Brand Discovery Coach. Luminous Lives Authentic Brand Discovery for Change-Makers.

Avoiding Overwhelm In the Program

Here’s the truth: overwhelm is always available. This program will gently and compassionately support you to follow your heart so your business gets what it truly needs. And I’m guessing that there will be a fair amount of work for you to do along the way.

We’re offering a lot, which you’ll read about below. Teaching calls, office hours, retreats, plus additional learning materials. And we’ll be wanting you to connect with other participants. If we aren’t careful, the program could take more than it gives.

But, we are going to be careful, and the program will give more than it asks. Here’s how.

First, the spiritual foundation is key. By making a profound connection in your heart, and clearing out all the gunk in the way, only the truth remains. Your guidance is what will fuel your participation. You won’t be blindly following our curriculum, but engaged in a real way to build your business.

Second, by spending time with other participants, you will get tasks done more quickly, not waste time. For instance? You need to rewrite five of your web pages. You could spend weeks stewing on your own, trying to get it done, even with worksheets and how-to’s.

Or, you could get on the phone with one of your buddies, and, using the worksheets and guidance we offer, in one hour have written drafts for all five pages.

That’s what I mean.

One final note. When I do individual sessions with clients, it’s not unusual to spend most of the hour doing spiritual healing work. Then, the practical, task-oriented stuff comes together easily, naturally, in the last five to ten minutes.

This program is designed to replicate that process. Why struggle for days or weeks, when you can cut through to the heart, and move your business forward much more easily?

Here’s How We’ll be Meeting

This program is a vehicle, with a lot of solid support to carry you through the year.

• 24 Interactive Teaching Calls
• Recordings of all calls
• The Heart of Business Library (worth $1500+)
• Four Quarterly Q&A and “hot seat” coaching calls
• Monthly Office Hours for Individual Coaching
• Spiritual Self-Healing Techniques Learning Calls
• Six 24 Hour Virtual Retreats
• An In-Depth Live Video Virtual Event
• Regular Guided Remembrance Recordings

Let me explain each of these to you so you really get the intention behind each and why it helps you get to Stage Three: Momentum.

Twenty-Four Interactive Teaching Calls

Led by Jason Stein and Yollana Shore, using the interactivity of distance learning tools, these will go deep into each topic. These calls will accelerate your learning of and application of the teaching topics.

Calls will be first and third Thursdays of each month, 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. pacific.

(4 p.m. Eastern, 9 p.m. in the U.K., 7 a.m. in Sydney or Brisbane. It’s the only time that doesn’t interrupt sleep for folks in Europe, North America and Australia.)

January 19 and 26, February 2, 16, March 1, 15, April 5, 19

May 3, 17, June 7, 21, July 5, 19, August 2, 16

September 6, 20, October 4, 18, November 1, 15, December 6, 13

Recordings of All Calls

It’s a year-long course. We want you to attend every call, but we know, realistically, that won’t happen. Kids get sick, you get sick, things happen.

That’s why every call will be recorded. More than that, they will be uploaded and available for you the same day they happen, often within a couple of hours.

Material from the Heart of Business Library:

You can go much more deeply into many of the topics at your own pace and timing within the Heart of Business Library, an broad and deep collection of PDF and audio tracks. The audio is labelled and divided into short tracks, so you don’t have to wade through hours of audio to get what you need.

One client, when they first saw the library, said, “Holy —-! I had no idea you had this much! It’s the most complete body of work I’ve seen. I’m sending everyone I know to you.”

To buy the library on it’s own would cost more than $1500.

Four Quarterly Q&A and “hot seat” coaching calls with Mark, Jason, and Yollana.

Although Jason and Yollana will be present, Mark takes center stage on these calls. He’ll be working with volunteers for the hot-seat on whatever topic they need help with to dig deep into exactly what your business needs next.

Dates of Calls (all are Thursdays, 1-2:30 p.m. pacific):

March 22, June 28, September 27, November 29

Office Hours Individual Coaching

Sometimes you just need to get some insightful coaching individually with someone who really knows.

Jason and Yollana will be holding monthly office hours for individual, thirty-minute laser coaching conversations. There will be enough office hour slots available that you will be able to have a private office hours meeting slightly less than once a month.

Spiritual Self-Healing Techniques

Mark is a designated master teacher in his Sufi lineage, a lineage known for healing work. He is a former faculty at the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism, where he is also currently pursuing his Masters of Divinity degree.

Mark will teach spiritual self-healing approaches that help solve such problems as overwhelm, fear, making guided choices, among others.

Spiritual Teaching Calls happen on Thursdays, and the time alternates.

January 25, 1-2:15 p.m. | March 8, 2-3:15 p.m.

May 10, 1-2:15 p.m. |  July 12, 2-3:15 p.m.

September 13, 1-2:15 p.m. | November 8, 2-3:15 p.m.

(Yes, there, are only six. They alternate monthly with the Virtual Retreats below.)

Six Twenty-Four Hour Virtual Retreats

The trouble is that life moves very quickly, and there is always too much going on. In the midst of that, how do you get clarity to make choices from wisdom and guidance? And, how do you declutter your heart of all the junk of anxiousness and worry? And how do you find an anchor of peace and strength in the storm?

Regular retreats, taking a single twenty-four period away from the world to deepen your heart. Mark has been leading these virtual retreats for years, and they are surprisingly effective.

Dates of Retreats (All Fridays, retreats start at 6 a.m. pacific, and ends 6 a.m. pacific the next day):

February 17, April 20, June 15,

August 17, October 19, December 14

These retreats ordinarily cost $75 to attend on their own. You get all six of them included, a $450 value.

An In-Depth Virtual Event

Often we yearn for that in-person learning experience. And yet, if you are trying to get through the struggle of Stage Two in your business, the expense of traveling is significant. So we’re not going to put that on you. No travel. No hotel. No time away.

However, it’s a lot to give up, the in-depth personal interaction. So we’re going to do it virtually.

Video-streaming technology has made virtual events surprisingly powerful. It’s true virtual can’t completely replace the experience of being in-person, but it can still be extremely effective, fun, and a LOT less expensive for you.

Regular Guided Remembrance Recordings

One of the hardest things to do, it seems, is to sit by yourself and go deep in your heart. It’s really hard to just do it on your own. But, somehow, being guided into that state, especially by someone who is experiencing that state themselves, makes it much easier.

Mark will be releasing Guided Remembrance recordings on a regular basis to support you on going deep. Some will be general to just deepen you into your heart. Some will be on themes, of how to access love, or widen your ability to receive, or to face challenging people or situations.

All will be nourishing, and short enough to use repeatedly in a regular spiritual practice.

Premium: Sessions with Mark Silver

We’re really clear that that core version of this program is incredibly powerful. However, sometimes you want some extra help. There is a premium version that gives you four direct, one-on-one sessions with me, Mark Silver, one each quarter.

In each session, you’ll receive all of my experience, business, strategic, healing and otherwise. We’ll go deep, get what you need, come back out, and apply it so it has practical follow-through. And, I’ll share what’s appropriate with the rest of the team so Yollana and Jason can support you in follow-through.

There are only ten of these premium slots available.

Let’s Talk Honestly About the Price

It’s really common when talking about programs like this to pepper you with words like “value” and “investment.” Listen, you’re smart. You’re an adult. I trust you. You know we’re giving our all, and you don’t need to be fuzzed with fake words.

In offering a program like this, there’s a lot for us, the offerers, to balance. The business needs to make a profit, the team members need to be paid an amount that allows them to really dedicate their time generously. Not just Jason, Yollana and myself, but Susan, Tzaddi and other members of the support team need to be budgeted for as well. It’s crazy how costs add up.

I’ve seen programs like this offered for $10,000, $20,000 or more for the year. And I can understand how a business owner would want to charge that much. We may, at some point, offer a program that costs that much ourselves.

But not this program. Not for you in the situation you’re in.

The early-bird price for the core course is $6175 ($7175 after December 2). That’s a healthy, significant cost that may not be five figures, but may still make you gulp. You can bring that down to $5500 depending on how you pay. More on that in a minute.

I could, at this point, remind you about how much you’ll gain through a program like this. That it’s meant to help you grow your business so it generates tens of thousands of dollars a year, yadada.

You’re an adult. You know if you need this. I think you’ll find the price fair.

Here’s how to bring the price down

First Option: You can pay all upfront, in which case the cost is $5500, saving you $675.

Second Option: You can pay $2500 up front, and then $266/month January through December, so your total cost is $5700, saving you $475.

Third Option: You can pay $475 to register, and then $475 per month January through December, and then the course costs $6175.

Here It Is At A Glance:

Opening the Moneyflow 2012 Program

What’s Included	Core	Premium
26 Interactive Teaching Calls on 12 Topics
Recordings of all calls, available same day as each class
Community Mastermind/Buddy system support
Monthly Office Hours for Individual Coaching with Jason and Yollana
6 Guided Spiritual Self-Healing Technique classes taught by Mark
6 Virtual Retreats for heart-clarity (one every two months)
4 Quarterly “Hot Seat” Q&A calls with Mark and the rest of the team
Community forum with online coaching and support from Jason and Yollana
Regular Remembrance Guided Meditation Audios from Mark
In-depth Virtual Event Attendance
4 Individual Assessment/Strategy/Healing Sessions with Mark
Regular Price (Apply after 12/2, registered after 12/9)	$7175	$8995
If you register by 12/2:Paid in full for the entire year(save $675)	US $5,500 (save $675)	US $7,320 (save $675)
Partial payment, then 12 monthly payments – January through December	US $2,500 now, then 12 monthly payments of $266 (save $475)	US $3,000 now, then 12 monthly payments of $360. (Save $475)
Registration payment, then 12 monthly payments January through December.	US $475 now, then 12 monthly payments of $475. (Full price= $6175 for the year.)	US $563 now, then 12 monthly payments of $564. (Full price=$7995 for the year.)

85% Guarantee

We guarantee this program, if you do the work. Because we’re going to be committing a lot of time and energy, providing all of this support, we can only guarantee this course if you participate 85%.

If you attend, participate, and complete 85% of the classes, partnering, forum, assignments and you speak up and let us know if you need help or are struggling with something during the course, then if you’re not happy with the program, we will refund you any tuition you paid for this course.

How You Join

There is no “buy” button on this page. It’s an in-depth, intimate year-long journey, and we want to make sure it’s a good fit.

If you want to join us for a fantastic year of heart-centered learning and growth, then fill out the form below. Our team will read it, and:

• If you’re ready to go, and your answers show you to be a great candidate, you’ll receive instructions on how to register and claim your spot. You will need to pay your deposit within 24 hours to secure your spot.

• If your application looks good, yet you have questions and/or we have questions, you’ll schedule a 30 minute conversation so we can get to know each other and get the questions answered.

• If your application shows that clearly this program isn’t right for you, we’ll let you know that, too, with recommendations on where to go next in place of the program.

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